Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions

Abstract

The view is commonly held that women have traditionally been oppressed in Third World societies and that is the key to changing their situation. The opposing view is that womens status was good in many (not all) Third World societies in the past and that the structure and ideology of male dominance were introduced as corollaries of colonialism. Furthermore accumulating evidence shows that although contemporary development may afford political and professional roles for a few token women given its imperialist context it continues to undermine the status and autonomy of the vast majority (Boserup 1970; Bossen 1975; Nash 1975; Remy 1975; Rubbo 1975). The discuss the impact of development on womens status in society therefore means to confront the reality that womens oppression is inextricably bound up with a world system of exploitation. To analyze the status of women in order to change it is to analyze the need for and possibility of the most fundamental social transformation. (excerpt)

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